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| Preface | |
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| Author's Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Entitled Teenager | |
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| The New Parent | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| What Is Adolescence? | |
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| Physical Changes | |
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| Intellectual Changes | |
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| The Major Change: Turning Away from Childhood | |
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| The Wish Not to Grow Up | |
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| Margaret and the Stairs | |
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| The Bliss of the Baby Self | |
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| A Self Without Conscience | |
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| Which Is the Real Self? | |
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| The Passion of Adolescence | |
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| Where It's At | |
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| Memories of Adolescence | |
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| What They Do and Why | |
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| Facing the Adolescent Mandate | |
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| Allergy to Parents | |
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| Teenage Boys | |
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| Teenage Girls | |
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| Parents Are to Be Taken for Granted | |
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| Adults as Jerks | |
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| Parents as an Embarrassment | |
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| They Even Look Up to Some Adults, but Never Us | |
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| Friends Are Everything | |
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| Fitting In--Girls | |
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| Fitting In--Boys | |
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| The Tyranny of How I Look | |
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| The Typical Teenager | |
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| Being the Parent of a Teenager | |
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| Letting Go | |
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| Preventing Disaster | |
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| Letting Them Fail | |
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| Accepting Them for Themselves | |
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| Dealing with the Day-to-Day | |
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| Setting Limits | |
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| Making Decisions | |
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| Gentle Nudges | |
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| Giving Too Much | |
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| Calming the Waves of Hysteria | |
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| The Unconditional Deal | |
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| I Never Used to Act That Way | |
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| Between Parent and Teenager | |
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| Communication and Trust | |
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| Communication | |
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| Listening to Your Teenager--I | |
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| Listening to Your Teenager--II | |
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| They Don't Listen to Anything I Say | |
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| They Think I'm Always Criticizing Them | |
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| Is Communication Impossible? | |
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| Trusting Your Lying Teenager | |
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| Controlling Your Teenager | |
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| The Parent Within | |
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| Establishing the Boundaries | |
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| Keeping the Rules in Place | |
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| Obeying the Spirit of the Law | |
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| Devious Defiance | |
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| Direct Disobedience | |
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| Parents' Greatest Error | |
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| Out of Control | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Battles (and What to Do About Them in General) | |
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| Many Doors to Doom | |
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| Teenagers' Traps for Parents | |
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| How Parents Trap Themselves | |
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| How Can You Ask Me to Take You to the Mall After What Just Happened Fifteen Minutes Ago? | |
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| Beyond Words | |
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| Jobs Around the House | |
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| To Nag or Not to Nag | |
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| I'll Do It Later | |
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| If She Won't Do for Me ... | |
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| The Consolation Prize | |
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| Intrafamilial Hassles | |
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| Sibling Rivalry | |
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| Parent Against Parent | |
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| Each Parent in Charge of His or Her Own Scene | |
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| Different Parents, Different Rules | |
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| Reality and the World Outside | |
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| Parents' Role in a New World | |
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| Divorce | |
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| I Want to Worry About Acne, Not This | |
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| Moving | |
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| It Was My Fault | |
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| Caught In Between | |
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| Parenting Alone | |
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| Stepparenting | |
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| You're Not My Father | |
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| Must I Like My Stepson? | |
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| School | |
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| Academic Performance | |
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| What Parents Can Do | |
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| Motivating Your Teenager | |
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| Supervision | |
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| Time as an Ally | |
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| Troublemakers in School | |
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| The Electronic World | |
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| Competing for Their Attention | |
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| Connection to Peers | |
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| Nasty Content | |
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| Turning It Off | |
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| The Biggest Influence | |
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| Sex | |
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| Michael and Yvonne | |
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| The New Age of Sex | |
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| Should Teenagers Have Sex? | |
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| Problems of Teenage Sex | |
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| Sex and Intimacy | |
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| Sex in the Time of AIDS | |
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| What Can Parents Do? | |
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| Beyond Education | |
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| Controlling Your Teenager's Sexual Behavior | |
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| Gay and Lesbian Teenagers | |
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| Drugs and Drinking | |
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| Drugs in America--Two Problems | |
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| Parents' Role | |
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| Drinking and Driving | |
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| It's Against the Law | |
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| Substance-Abuse Problems | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Boys versus Girls | |
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| Suicide Attempts | |
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| Why Do Teenagers Try to Kill Themselves? | |
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| Depression and Suicide | |
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| They Can't See Tomorrow | |
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| Intervention | |
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| What to Do | |
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| If They Say "yes" | |
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| Warning Signs | |
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| The Mandatory Warning Sign | |
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| Conclusion: The End of Adolescence | |
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| Remember: It's a Stage | |